Sentences with phrase «such grotesque»

The palace released an intial statement saying: «Their Royal Highnesses have been hugely saddened to learn that a French publication and a photographer have invaded their privacy in such a grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner.

That last scene is the most insulting, and not necessarily because it's so disgusting, but because Green uses such a grotesque act to drum up sympathy for his absolutely repugnant character (you see, the baby only started breathing after Gord twirled him around... oh, never mind).

For being such a grotesque visual spectacle, it manages to be a very thoughtful movie, speaking volumes visually, without uttering a single word.

Adam Sandler is an idiot for presenting this film to us like we're idiots that love such grotesque concepts.

He says that the number of nuclear weapons has now reached «levels of redundancy of such grotesque dimensions as to defy rational understanding.»

He went on to praise those who've suffered for standing up to adversity: «I greatly admire the courage and faith of your flock who are an example to us all of faith quite literally under such grotesque and barbarous assault.»

Not exact matches

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

One hopes that common sense, which judges such a desire as grotesque, will prevail over those who would regard it as just another lifestyle choice.

For such a view leads to the most grotesque bifurcation of reality which is much worse than that criticized so convincingly by Whitehead: on one side, the realm of timelessly valid propositions, including those referring to future events, while on the other side the temporal realm of nature and mind in which the timeless propositions are being gradually embodied.

Anyway, the welcome parts of the EU's internationalism, such as the end of visa restrictions on the continent, could be maintained along with the common market long after we have jettisoned the more grotesque aspects of the European project.

(Frankly, the cruelest such experiments are the ones taking place in Endor's dining hall, as we see in one deliciously grotesque throwaway detail.)

-- we're treated to the oh - so - edifying spectacle of our loser protagonists eating a cooked dog (and the challenges get even more grotesque after that), it's hard to tell where the critique of such cruelty ends and the celebration of it begins.

The film has the odd interesting loose - end, uses music unpredictably and it is properly grotesque in places, such as the first scene in which we see the Brufort family chewing on the various limbs and body parts of their victims.

Not exactly a shrinking violet, Smarzowski has established himself as a brutal realist with a taste for the ugly and the grotesque, with such movies as The Wedding and House of Evil presenting Polish experience in an unforgiving, and yet liberating way.

Such types would have fit in easily among the broad caricatures and grotesques that populated such Coens comedies as Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski (to say nothing of weaker efforts such as Intolerable Cruelty and their atrocious remake of The LadykilleSuch types would have fit in easily among the broad caricatures and grotesques that populated such Coens comedies as Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski (to say nothing of weaker efforts such as Intolerable Cruelty and their atrocious remake of The Ladykillesuch Coens comedies as Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski (to say nothing of weaker efforts such as Intolerable Cruelty and their atrocious remake of The Ladykillesuch as Intolerable Cruelty and their atrocious remake of The Ladykillers).

The road to hell has rarely been paved with such good intentions; director Sean Penn cast Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem as super-photogenic doctors falling in love and saving lives in African war zones, but the dialogue was so vapid and over-ripe that audiences giggled uncomfortably when they weren't averting their eyes from grotesque battle footage.

Certainly 1996's brassy and grotesque fever dream Crash exemplifies such an idea and with an appetite.

Such obviousness marks the film as a whole, right down to the grotesque chili - bowl haircut that the now - grown - up Josh (Zachary Quinto) sports to immediately signal to us that we're watching a mentally disturbed individual.

And yet he uses such effusive, vivid vocabulary that he somehow renders these shocking scenes artful, as when writing of a corpse: «All that is left is a grotesque and bloody gallimaufry of bones, sinew, and innards.»

[4] In the early 1920s there was a surge of houses built with Plateresque elements; such as grotesques, pinnacles and mixtilinear arches.

The boss battles range from epic battles, such as a killer rabbit, a gorgon, or even a grotesque Chimera.

If you're a completionist than you'll no doubt be overjoyed that Little Nightmares has its own little collectables scattered throughout, however don't expect to be told how many, how often or what exactly it is you're looking for until you stumble across something a bit out of the ordinary, which as you can imagine in a game such as this is not that noticeable early on; again this lack of guidance proves to be nuisance as finding these collectables will reward you with beautiful and grotesque artwork that are a tremendous shame to miss out on.

The beginning of the game is a unique, terrifying ordeal, but once players begin to recognize the tricks, such as the jump scares and increasingly grotesque scenery, and learn each of the monsters» patterns, it loses its initial shock value.

If in his childhood the shadowy places plagued him with grotesque and torturing shapes, I imagine in later life he inspected all such locales in clear light.

In 2004 they began working closely together as a duo to create transgressive narratives rich in symbolic meaning and emotional reach, mining allegorical myths and grotesque, nightmarish visions in pieces such as Tiger Licking Girl's Butt (2004) and We Are Not Two, We Are One (2008).

Claiming imagery typically referenced through our daily interaction with media sources, Kahrs builds on the diversity of photographic images infused with the seductive palette of artists such as Richter and Tuymans, but invests them with a grotesque, bodily relationship to the viewer seen in the work of Jenny Saville.

As such, they play into the artistic tradition of the grotesque, paralleling for example Bruegel's accounts of folk behaviour.

This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and objects; drawings; paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

Her work harks back to the grotesque satire of popular social convention expressed by such artists as James Ensor and Otto Dix and exhibits the visceral comedy of Nathalie Djurberg and Tetsumi Kudo.

Kersels» piece provokes an uneasy smile at first, and then admiration for its being such a clever response to the work of Bruce Nauman, an artist justly admired for exploring our visceral consciousness of the grotesque ironies of recent history.

Marilyn Minter's Crystal Swallow would seem to capture a private moment of visceral response, yet in such detail and exaggerated scale that it becomes a grotesque advertisement for arousal.

James Ostrer's new photographic series «The Ego System» draws inspiration from his surroundings by means of the media, portraying grotesque portraits of characters such as Donald Trump.

The exhibition focuses on some of the dominant themes prevalent throughout Sherman's work, such as artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth and fairy tale; and gender and class identity.

In their formal restlessness and obsessive fantasies both whimsical and grotesque, they are of a piece with the work of American mavericks such as Nancy Grossman, Jess, H.C. Westermann, Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin.

Although this show focuses on Bhabha's two - dimensional work, the artist is best known for her grotesque yet monumental sculptures born out of ancient tribal artifacts, German Expressionism, and popular science - fiction influences such as those in her recent exhibition at MoMA PS1 of otherworldly figures appearing in a state of decay.

Although his style of the 1930s bears some resemblance to Picasso's and his canvasses of the 1940s relate to the satanic, grotesque imagery of some forms of Surrealism, Still consistently rejected all such associations.

There is the grotesque in artworks such as Intestine, a long segment that obviously represents excrements, made by Kiki Smith, who also shows two wax figures depicted in self - satisfactory, masturbatory practices (Mother / Child), or in Paul McCarthy's sculpture of pigs with human faces, copulating in an orgy.

Another artist such as Willem de Kooningfeatured images of grotesque and violent women in a figurative aspect.

This solo exhibition presents new sculptures by Altmejd that feature grotesque and surreal human faces using materials such as metals, paints, plasters, clays, foams, and gels.

The entire structure of the auction system, with its plethora of rulings and workarounds such as CASPR, demonstrates it is a grotesque Rube Goldberg arrangement that should be abandoned simply because it's too complex to understand and administer, let alone that it threatens reliability.

They attack her for her involvement in efforts to remove the grotesque amounts of money now flooding into judicial elections — often from out - of - state corporate front groups - and supporting a Nevada voter initiative that would replace such a system with merit selection of judges.